yorik wrote:This makes it hard to know which one is "front" and which one is "right side"...
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I think we could rotate that cube slightly,so there is one face that is more frontal than the other, what do you think?

yorik wrote:There is also another problem I think: The different view icons (front, top, left, right, etc), are now fully isometric. This makes it hard to know which one is "front" and which one is "right side"...

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I think we could rotate that cube slightly,so there is one face that is more frontal than the other, what do you think?

I liked more these cubes than the cuboid actually... The cube seems more "neutral" than the cuboid which seems to refer to a shape to me... So cube woudl mean view, cuboid would mean shape... Don't know if that makes any sense...

yorik wrote:I liked more these cubes than the cuboid actually... The cube seems more "neutral" than the cuboid which seems to refer to a shape to me... So cube woudl mean view, cuboid would mean shape... Don't know if that makes any sense...

Great, PR submitted.
I understand, a cuboid suggests there's a reason one side is longer than the other, while a cube is more neutral.

The reason I did it like that in Techdraw is because the original icons were unambiguously cuboids, but I would have preferred cubes personally speaking.

jidoeuf wrote:To avoid confusing view rotations and draw styles, I think we should have a different set of icons for draw styles.
Here is an example for wireframe and flat lines:

I love this idea. The addition of the sphere makes the wireframe mode much more explicit. This would render any documentation incompatible however - where are we on pinning a date on 0.17? Last I heard we were waiting on the massive work of assembly / new part design.

agryson wrote:I love this idea. The addition of the sphere makes the wireframe mode much more explicit. This would render any documentation incompatible however - where are we on pinning a date on 0.17? Last I heard we were waiting on the massive work of assembly / new part design.

I like the draw style idea as well.
I think there is no way to consider a release until after the end of GSoC, depending on what project(s) are chosen.

I think the documentation issue is going to be a very difficult problem. Many things are changing in 0.17, while we must support the current 0.16 release. For example the Part Design (FEM, Path) documentation for 0.16 and 0.17 is going to be drastically different. I think the wiki guys are using sandbox pages to start. To think that a feature freeze of a few weeks before the 0.17 release will allow the documentation to catch up seems unrealistic. I don't have a suggestion for a solution though. The changes in 0.17 are going to be drastic. The forum regulars have been consistent warning users the implications of using the dev version.